New York Consolidated Laws, Retirement and Social Security Law - RSS § 63-a. Performance of duty disability retirement

a. Any member in the uniformed personnel in institutions under the jurisdiction of the department of corrections and community supervision or a security hospital treatment assistant, as those terms are defined in subdivision i of section eighty-nine of this article, who becomes physically or mentally incapacitated for the performance of duties as the natural and proximate result of an injury, sustained in the performance or discharge of his or her duties by, or as the natural and proximate result of an act of any incarcerated individual or any person confined in an institution under the jurisdiction of the department of corrections and community supervision or office of mental health, or by any person who has been committed to such institution by any court shall be paid a performance of duty disability retirement allowance equal to that which is provided in section sixty-three of this title, subject to the provisions of section sixty-four of this title.

b. Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter or of any general or special law to the contrary, a member covered by this section who contracts HIV (where there may have been an exposure to a bodily fluid of an incarcerated individual or a person described in subdivision a of this section as a natural and proximate result of an act of any incarcerated individual or person described in subdivision a that may have involved transmission of a specified transmissible disease from an incarcerated individual or such person described in subdivision a to the retirement system member), tuberculosis or hepatitis will be presumed to have contracted such disease in the performance or discharge of his or her duties, and will be presumed to be disabled from the performance of his or her duties, unless the contrary be proved by competent evidence.

c. Repealed eff. July 1, 2001, pursuant to L.1999, c. 653, § 4.